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An example: http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/ http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/ $800 more with automatic, about 5% of the cost of the car.
by ericd 10y ago
An example:
http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/ http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/
$800 more with automatic, about 5% of the cost of the car.
- criddell 10y agoThat's the purchase price. In the US, the market for manual transmission cars is smaller and so unless you plan on driving it into the ground, that manual transmission could very well end up costing the same. On top of that, automatic transmission cars are more fuel efficient, so the operating costs might be a wee bit lower.
- criddell 10y agoIt wasn't clear, but I was talking about the lower resale value of manual transmission cars.
- yardie 10y agoManual transmissions are almost always a custom order. You can walk into any dealer and ask that $800 be knocked off and chances are you will get it. But this only applies to the cars on the lot, which are almost always automatic. If you are lucky the dealer might have a cancelled order on the lot with a manual transmission.